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“EinKörperimRaum”is a soloon the inclusion ofthe body in the spaceof the scene.Based on the conceptsof RudolfLaban, a Hungarian movementtheoristofthe early twentieth century, RaphaëlCottin, creator of the company “La Poétique des Signes“, has developed an originalstyle.

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“Street life”, a musical by NasserMartin-Gousset, created as partof the “Quartiers d’Arts“ project proposed bythe city of Orléans, allowed twenty participantsto enroll ina creative projectunderthe directionof an artist.Two performances of“Street life”took placeon 6 and7 July 2013, at the college “AnatoleBailly”in front of more than500 people. (Here’s a photograph from one of these performances).TheCCNOwishes to continueits support forsome of these youngartists whocame together toimaginenew projects.Thus,Timothé Mohamed Ballo and Guillaume Dechambenoitwere welcomed to thestudios of the CCNOfortheseason 2013/2014 andpresented their workto the publicat the end oftheir rehearsals.

The story line of this musical comedy takes place in contemporary Orleans and in places of everyday movement – a square, a courtyard, a parking lot or a street. Without losing site of the storybook aspect of this musical fable, the comedy remains anchored in reality, as do the characters and situations. The project is built on pre-existing French songs, labelled “realist”, from the 1930s, 40s and 50s, as well as popular and international songs from the 60s, 70s and 80s. They are transformed and adapted to tell a story. Together with the participants, we created movement and text based on improvisations and given situations related to the concept of behaviour in the public space that is the street, exploring encounters, rendezvous, good-byes and reunions. Nasser Martin-Gousset.

Okay, time for some shameless self-promotion here: one of my pictures got published in the French daily newspaper “Le Monde”. The picture is used to promote the piece “ATEM” by choreographer Joseph Nadj. You can read more about this theatrical piece here: “ATEM le souffle, on tour“.

Last summer I did a photo session covering Josef Nadj’s latest piece “ATEM le souffle” at the CCNO in Orléans, France. Here’s a summary of this piece and a tour calendar. Check it out if you can, it’s an awesome experience!

Transforming the cramped area of a three-by-four-meter box into an infinite space, abolishing time with a simple baton, which restricts as much as it makes possible the relationship of two beings: this is the theatrical and alchemical experience that Josef Nadj and Anne-Sophie Lancelin engage in. Together, they inhabit this device and dance for about 60 spectators. The crowding is metamorphosed into intimacy, the public is attentive to the innumerable details of a stage lit only by candles. The picture vacillates and changes attacked by each person’s breath. Breath is Atem in German. It is a word that Josef Nadj encountered in a poem by Paul Celan, whose writings gravitate around this new creation. The picture also vacillates and changes attacked by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) whose engraving Melencolia has subjugated and pursued Josef Nadj since his adolescence. He sees a woman and a small man in it, both sporting wings, who seem to be waiting in front of a house, surrounded by a host of signs and objects that lend themselves to infinite interpretations. The choreography takes hold of this engraving and the other two that form with it a trilogy – Saint Jerome in His Study and Knight, Death and the Devil –, like a field of rebuses, of suggestions. To unfold all the possibilities in these works, Anne-Sophie Lancelin and Josef Nadj circulate in a sound space composed by Alain Mahé, using the sound of nature and the elements. For a small theater of light and shadow, emotions and sensations.